Mono Applications

From Techrights

Mononono is an advised solution to prevent Mono from cropping up in a system. If you are using Gentoo, just add the line dev-lang/mono to the file /etc/portage/package.mask and add "-mono" to your USE flags in /etc/make.conf.

For Arch Linux, add mono and libgdiplus to the IgnorePkg section of /etc/pacman.conf. You will get the following message when installing the group gnome-extra: "Do you want to skip the above package(s) for this upgrade?" Just say yes and anything depending on Mono won't be installed.

The following are vectors of Mono infection, according to Wikipedia, which attempt to replace legitimate applications and need to be removed:

Finding and Removing Mono-based Software

The following are programs that use the Mono application programming interface|API and C# instead of Java, Python or other open architectures.

It is the default player in Ubuntu, with a bad interface, it is sponsored by Novell and because this Banshee uses a very permissive licence -- not sufficient to protect multimedia contents and not good to protect the project against patents.

Monsoon is a bittorrent client which uses monotorrent library. Mono people can try to include Monsoon as part of a default GNOME installation. Mono promoter; OpenSUSE already includes monsoon and Banshee in its GNOME installations.

Bad Licence

Monsoon and monotorrent use the MIT/X11 licence. It's not good for GNU/Linux to promote licences with weak copyleft; instead use GNU GPLv3 or copyleft licenses. And MIT/X11 is not good for protecting projects against software patents.

The sad thing is that Tomboy included by default in a lot of GNU/Linux distributions. Gtk-sharp has a lot of packages, while other bindings have nothing. This causes API Domination controlled mainly by an abusive monopolist, Microsoft.